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01/22/2003 Archived Entry: "The Vancouver rain and job search blues"

In case you don't know Vancouver: it rains here. In fact, it rains here for stretches of time that would depress Ronald McDonald on Prozac. Nothing worse than being in a place that is grey for days doing something that keeps you stuck inside (job searching, waiting for phone calls) trying to get motivated.

Generally, I am not a depressed guy. Oh, I've had times in my life when all I saw was the metaphorical ground in front of me and I couldn't force myself to look up at the metaphorical sky, but generally I'm a happy man. Job searching in the (itself, depressed) tech industry in Vancouver (which is overpopulated by technical people) in the midst of days of rain though...that's a bit soul-quenching. The only way out is to work my way through it, hopefully something will arise soon.

Networking being what it is, the best way to get a job, please think about anything you might have that I could do for you or your employer or your friends' employers. My resume is up at the top.

Other things I am doing to make money: I got my Cafepress shops off to the right in the sidebar, I am going to post on the supermarket bulletin boards offering myself as a computer tutor/web guy. I've actually made a sale on the Campbell-Maui shop! Someone out there has a wall clock with my design on it. Oh, the shadow of politics in BC, eh?

The other shop, "!/.", I think has the most potential...there's any number of people who will buy something to express their displeasure with the 'big boys', that simple set of symbols means so much to those in the know.